Jatki language

Jatki, Jadgali, and other related terms have sometimes been used to refer to one or another of the Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Balochistan and neighbouring parts of Sindh and Punjab.

• JatkiLahnda pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒə.ʈə̆.kiː] ) is a name of a dialect group of Western Punjabi. Jatki consists of the Jhangvi and Shahpuri. They are spoken in the broader Bar region, which includes the following districts: , ^[1] Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad (western parts), Chiniot, Jhang, Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh, Layyah, Okara, Sahiwal, Pakpattan, Bahawalnagar, Khanewal and Vehari.
• Jatki was used in 19th-century British sources for what would later be called Sindhi, as well as for Khetrani. ^[2] Jaṭkī is also attested in local use in Balochistan as a name for these two languages as well as for Sindhi. ^[3] Jataki was used by 19th-century British writer Richard Francis Burton for a variety of the Punjabi language. ^[4]
• Jaḍgālī (Jadgali pronunciation: [dʒaɖɡaːliː] ) is the common name for the Jadgali language spoken in Iranian Balochistan and western parts of Pakistani Balochistan. ^[5] Related to the above are Jagdālī (جگدالی), ^[6] and Jaghdali, ^[7] in use among the Balochi speakers of Dera Ghazi Khan District of southwestern Punjab for the Punjabi variety spoken there. The Arabic terms az-Zighālī and az-Zijālī refer to speakers of the Jadgali language in the diaspora in Oman and the United Arab Emirates. ^[8]

References

1. "District wise population report of Punjab and other provinces according to census 2017".
2. Wagha 1990 , p. 6
3. Elfenbein 1990, p. 74.
4. Wagha 1990, p. 7.
5. Delforooz 2008.
6. Abdul Haq 1967 , p. 128; (in the latter it is anglicised as Jagdalli.)
7. Wagha 1990, p. 6.
8. Delforooz 2008, p. 25.

Bibliography

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• Delforooz, Behrooz Barjasteh (2008). "A sociolinguistic survey among the Jagdal in Iranian Balochistan". In Jahani, Carina; Korn, Agnes; Titus, Paul Brian (eds.). The Baloch and others: linguistic, historical and socio-political perspectives on pluralism in Balochistan. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. pp. 23–44. ISBN   978-3-89500-591-6.
• Elfenbein, Josef H. (1990). An Anthology of classical and modern Balochi literature. Vol. II: Glossary. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. ISBN   3447030305.
• Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (2020). "Inku". Glottolog 4.2.1. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
• Masica, Colin P. (1991). The Indo-Aryan languages. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-23420-7.
• Wagha, Muhammad Ahsan (1990). The Siraiki language : its growth and development. Islamabad: Derawar Publications.